Workplace Pet Peeves

[lunchbreak]

The girl with the magpie obsession. She's constantly asking people to look out of the window or saluting etc. I printed out a photo of a single magpie and pinned it to my cubicle wall to see if it would throw her into some sort of never ending loop but she just ignores it.

[beachguy498]

I see this type of stuff all the time between the women at work.
It doesn't piss me off though. I find it rather funny that they are all at each other's throats all the time.

I came up with this observation many years ago. If you have 2 women working in an office, all is fine. Add in a 3rd... the 2 strongest will turn on the weakest one. I've seen this go on a few times, always blows my mimd.

Rob

[dazlittle]

People who schedule meetings during lunch or after 5

I have this on a weekly basis, My boss and a big part of my team are in South Carolina, 5 hours behind me.

Tomorrow I have a meeting that for those guys runs from 09:00-13:00 but for me its 14:00-18:00.

The worst part is I start at 08:00 as that is 09:00 in Brussels where the remainder of my team are based!!

long days are long.

[rodriguez40]

This guy at work chews his food with mouth open. He makes more niose eating then my two dogs eating at the same time.
Dont let a drop of grease run down harm from his cheeseburger, cause he'll go after it with his tongue.

I'm surpriced no one has mentioned it here, but i know this happens in the work place a lot.
Old man keeps eating of peoples food in the fridge, he doesn't bring food from home or buy food. Just sneaks head in fridge and takes snacks all day.

[KenJenkinsII]

I had a secretary that would answer the phone and when the person calling would ask for someone she would respond "Can I ask him who's calling?" It drove me crazy. I would tell her she could ask me all day long, but the chances of me guessing who was calling were slim. I don't think she ever got it.

[62Wolf]

Almost forgot about the guy who doesn't contribute to an gift, but sure as hell signs his name on the card. Not that he can't afford it as he pi**es away a ton of money each week on cigs, beer, and lotto tickets.

[beachguy498]

.... I'm surpriced no one has mentioned it here, but i know this happens in the work place a lot.
Old man keeps eating of peoples food in the fridge, he doesn't bring food from home or buy food. Just sneaks head in fridge and takes snacks all day.

My dad worked many years for Grumman. Big place... they had refrigerators and lots of people kept their lunches there. One guy's wife always made him an awesome lunch, nice sandwich, soup in the thermos, fruit, slice of pie or cake for dessert.

Well... sporadically he'd go get his lunch and it was missing something. So one day he brings in a "special lunch" his wife made a big brownie and used an entire pack of Exlax for the icing. She took it real personal. So he brought the lunch in for a few days until the brownie got taken. He sits back and watches... sure enough, it was this guy from another department running for the crapper... messed his drawers and goes home. He was out for 3 days, never messed with anyone's lunch after that.

Rob

[itsagoodday]

I came up with this observation many years ago. If you have 2 women working in an office, all is fine. Add in a 3rd... the 2 strongest will turn on the weakest one. I've seen this go on a few times, always blows my mimd.

Yeah, but if you can just get 9 women in an office, they'll immediately start a softball team.

[rodriguez40]

This rat we have is smarter. The guys tried buying brownies from the supermarket and stuff the exlax by the sides. After days and days he didn't bite.

My dad worked many years for Grumman. Big place... they had refrigerators and lots of people kept their lunches there. One guy's wife always made him an awesome lunch, nice sandwich, soup in the thermos, fruit, slice of pie or cake for dessert.

Well... sporadically he'd go get his lunch and it was missing something. So one day he brings in a "special lunch" his wife made a big brownie and used an entire pack of Exlax for the icing. She took it real personal. So he brought the lunch in for a few days until the brownie got taken. He sits back and watches... sure enough, it was this guy from another department running for the crapper... messed his drawers and goes home. He was out for 3 days, never messed with anyone's lunch after that.

Rob

[phikappa]

FISH IN THE FCUKING MICROWAVE!!!!!!!!














asdf

[Smelly bull]

Lazy shiats and people that cannot change with the times. For everything else I just close my door.

[sy2502]

Has anyone mentioned dirty bathrooms yet? Why can't highly educated, well paid people leave a bathroom stall in a state that doesn't make the next person throw up in her mouth?

[thenags]

Has anyone mentioned dirty bathrooms yet? Why can't highly educated, well paid people leave a bathroom stall in a state that doesn't make the next person throw up in her mouth?

Ever worked with Cubans???

They wipe their ass with toilet paper but refuse to put it in the toilet and flush. So it sits on the top of the trash can. So I walk into the bathroom in our very high end building with an extremely nice bathroom..... And I look at TP covered in **** sitting on top of the trash! They also refuse to flush more than once. **** stains all over the bowl doesn't even phase them. They just walk right out.

[m314]

FISH IN THE FCUKING MICROWAVE!!!!!!!!

A buddy of mine at my last job used to eat a can of sardines every afternoon. He'd empty the can onto a plate and microwave it to heat it up. The people who sat near the break room weren't happy about it.

I tried the can of sardines thing as an afternoon snack, but I ate them cold. They were good. I decided to be nice to my coworkers and have a Muscle Milk shake as my afternoon snack instead. Those don't stink nearly as much.

[BalhamBeast]

I had a boss who slurped his coffee. It used to drive me nuts!

Few years back I used to eat cans of tuna at my desk. The loos were nearer than the kitchen so I used to drain the brine in the sink there (I'd rinse it away, of course).
A while later I was called into the HR manager's office and she expressed concern that I might be bulimic. Seems someone mistook the tuna brine smell for vomit and thought I was going in there to chuck up. I always made sure to go to the kitchen after that.

[urdaddyishere]

-People who take a dump and don't leave the door open for it to vent. I don't want to have to smell your ass.

-Idiots who think their life issues are more demanding than others, and require special treatment.

-Idiots who don't come to work prepared. If you come to work half asleep because your recreational activity required you to be up at odd hours, then don;t do them, or get enough sleep before you come in.

-Idiots who miss work due to personal decisions they have made in their lives and then say "I have no choice". MF'er you had a choice, and you could not do without. Now you're missing work to deal with it.

-Idiots who refuse to adhere to the office hierarchy and act like they are above their superiors.

-Idiots who won't do a task the way they are told, and when questioned about why it's messed up respond "Well I just figured"

[litljay]

Ever worked with Cubans???

They wipe their ass with toilet paper but refuse to put it in the toilet and flush. So it sits on the top of the trash can. So I walk into the bathroom in our very high end building with an extremely nice bathroom..... And I look at TP covered in **** sitting on top of the trash! They also refuse to flush more than once. **** stains all over the bowl doesn't even phase them. They just walk right out.

It's what they were taught growing up in Cuba. It's the same in Mexico. Can't flush paper there, so they're taught to throw it in the trash. One of our training subjects for new hires is this very issue (srs).

[sy2502]

I had one recently before I left my last group. He was the HR manager's buddy or something like that, so they hired him just to fill an open slot on the org chart.

The guy is so inept that he needs no help to look like a fool. Just let him do it himself, just takes the sport of leading someone down the garden path.

Rob

Mine is totally getting on my nerves today. She overheard 1 or 2 technical terms without actually knowing what they mean, so when she wants something unreasonable she'll start throwing them around, which makes the request even more ridiculous. So then you don't know if you should explain the meaning of the term before explaining why she used it improperly, and then see if she figures out why the request is ridiculous, or just tell her to f-off.

[StressMonkey]

FISH IN THE FCUKING MICROWAVE!!!!!!!!

yes yes YES. that's even worse than burnt popcorn.

[LisaSkinnoble]

Has anyone mentioned dirty bathrooms yet?

There's a whole other thread on that.

[sy2502]

There's a whole other thread on that.

Figured... as a topic it's the gift that keeps on giving

[Frnkd]

- people who answer our customers- that's what we call our patients in the hospital, reminds us who we are to them, service providers, with questions with "I don't know" and dont try to help them to find out.

-"I know" as an answer to a redirection or guidance to a new employee or old employee too. If you "know" than why dont you show it.

- " See, I told you" condescendingly or I gotcha kind of tone

-Arrogance- see above

- "yes, but" as an answer to an answer to a question that person asked regarding an opinion wanted of me......why do I get hooked?

- victimization- we treat real victims, you're not hired to be one.

- projection- "know who you are mad at.....its not me!" my response to people who seem to think I can read their life and reply to my question or comment with drama or over the top emotions, or is rude. geeze all I ask was whats for lunch.

- Can you answer the phone- I work in a hospital setting- when Im at the desk on the patients unit sometimes I would see everyone busy, the phone rings a doctor is sitting right next to it, and they don't answer it........On the other hand when Im in my classroom and call the unit, and a doctor do answer I get thrown and takes a second for me to ask my question...LOL

- People who use my advice, and use my name as a means to validate their opinions or suggestion with someone they maybe intimidated with....."Frank said.........."

-People who turns to me while giving advice for validation, I give them a meh.

[pharmamarketer]

Gossip. I hate it

[m314]

I have some new ones.

- When an external development team rewrites the software for creating the on-call schedule for engineers, but it's much worse than the previous version

- When the engineers go from spending one week on call every three months to being on call half the time due to the above

- When the new software schedules you to be on call for Super Bowl Sunday (meaning no beer in case you get called in to work)

First world problems, I know.

[billrich210]

People who share their personal life....way too many details for me. I am your supervisor, not your marriage counselor!

[Phattso]

I hate when peeps come up to me at gawk like I'm a bodybuilding freak of nature.





[does Phattso even lift?]

[m314]

I have a new one. They restocked the vending machines today with all the free sodas and drinks. I went to the machine, hit the button, and got a Diet Dr. Pepper. Then I noticed the top of the can was dirty. Dirty! Who do they think they are??!!! Do they really expect me to walk over to the sink to wash the can before I open it? They really need to hire someone for that. While they're at it, they should hire someone to deliver the drinks to our cubicles. I'm getting tired of walking all the way to the break room for my sodas, juices, and sparkling waters.

[-=FLEX=-]

Not a pet peeve, because it was an isolated incident, and I wasn't really peeved, more bewildered. Happened today.

We have one guy whose in charge of raw materials in the plant. Every month one of his guys does a physical count and they forward the information up to me. I run reports form the system and check the actuals against the reports, investigate variances, and when I'm satisfied we've got a decent count I have one of my employees enter the new data in the system to clear any variances and update actual balances. I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to do the analysis, so I put all the quantities in from the count sheets. Usually when all is said and done I e-mail that spreadsheet to the materials manager so he has an updated list of final balances.

So the count sheets have been around forever and have tons of stuff we never use and never have on hand, so he came to office today to ask if he could narrow them down from 7 pages to 3.

I said "If you want, just take the spreadsheet I send you every month, zero out last month's data and put in the new counts and e-mail it back to me."

Trying to make the guy's life easier, yanno?

He says "THAT'S YOUR JOB; I'M NOT DOING YOUR JOB FOR YOU!"

I just bert-stared him for a few seconds, then said "I don't care then; do what you want. As long as I get accurate data I don't care how many pages it is or how I get it."

LMAO

People are ****ed.

[beachguy498]

Mine is totally getting on my nerves today. She overheard 1 or 2 technical terms without actually knowing what they mean, so when she wants something unreasonable she'll start throwing them around, which makes the request even more ridiculous. So then you don't know if you should explain the meaning of the term before explaining why she used it improperly, and then see if she figures out why the request is ridiculous, or just tell her to f-off.

I worked in a remote location for a while and our boss at the time would come over mainly when the shti hit the fan over some issue. So we'd be tipped off when he was coming over and why in advance.

He would show up and we knew he had to be at this meeting in 10 minutes... of course he would never let on he needed our help and would ask roundabout questions and we gave him appropriate answers. So he'd rush off to the meeting totally less prepared than before he talked to us. Someone compared it to meat being thrown into a shark tank... 20 + years later, I still laugh about it.

Rob